digital preservation an european perspective … carlos oliveira ([email protected])...
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Digital Preservation An European perspective …
Carlos Oliveira([email protected])European CommissionDG INFORMATION SOCIETY and MEDIADir E - ContentLearning and Cultural Heritage
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Outline of presentationOutline of presentation
Who we are
Why is digital preservation important
for the EC
What has be done, is happening and is
part of the future agenda?
What can we gain from mutual
cooperation
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Who we are …Who we are …
Directorate General Information Society and Media
Promote the development and the use of ICT for the benefit of EU citizens
ICT research and development – FP6 IST programme => FP7 (2007-2013)
Availability and accessibility of ICT-based services Development of content-based industries Regulation of electronic communication services EU representative in international fora (ITU, UN, etc.) http://europa.eu.int/comm/dgs/information_society/index_en.htm
Complements the activities developed at national level
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More specifically …More specifically …
Directorate E – Content making content accessible to all
new ways of creating, finding and understanding content how to make easier the access to and the use of content cross-border use of content (inc. multilinguality) http://www.cordis.europa.eu/ist/directorate_e/index.html
Programmes: FP6 - IST => FP7 eContentPlus SaferInternetPlus
Initiatives: Digital libraries Scientific information Public Sector Information
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One step furtherOne step further
E3 – Learning and Cultural Heritage
Cultural heritage: Explore how can ICT improve people’s engagement in culture-related activities
Next generation of digital libraries Digitisation (books, audio-visual archives) Intelligent cultural heritage Preservation of digital resources
Technology-enhanced learning Personalisation and adaptive learning Explore interactions between the individual and organisational learning Deeper understanding of learning processes by exploring links between human learning,
cognition and technology
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Why digital preservation is important for the EC?Why digital preservation is important for the EC?
The more people you have in the network higher is its value!
Increased awareness of “how critical the problem is” but in many countries a national strategy for digital preservation is not yet in place
Concrete actions across the EU remain rather limited in terms of scope and mobilisation of resources
Need to stimulate a more pro-active attitude by the Member States involving a broad range of stakeholders
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What is the EC doing (or has done)?What is the EC doing (or has done)?
Actions at EU level
Mostly as part of the IST RTD programmes ERPANET (2001-04): awareness raising and
mobilisation of stakeholders DELOS: problem definition and research agenda PRESTOSPACE, BRICKS, MINERVA FP6 – call 5 (Sept 05)
2 new integrated projects CASPAR and PLANETS OAIS-based systems and tools supporting longer term
availability and accessibility of multi-sourced and multi-formatted resources
Test beds allowing to assess the technical feasibility and the organisational impact of new systems
DPE: Coordination of national activities – centres of competence
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What is the EC doing? What is the EC doing?
Policy initiatives Communication “i2010 and digital libraries”
Online availability of Europe’s cultural heritage Digitisation of existing holdings Online Accessibility Preservation of Digital Content EU coordination of ongoing initiatives and EU
funding Recommendation on “Digitisation and Digital
Preservation” (underway) http://europa.eu.int/information_society/activities/digital_libraries/index_en.htm
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What is the EC doing?What is the EC doing?
Lisbon agenda - EU competitiveness
Digital preservation essential to preserve our collective institutional
memory (libraries, archives, museums)
but also for science and research scientific data
and for companies in various sectors of activity pharmaceuticals, financial sector
Study: Socio-Economic drivers and Impact of longer term digital preservation (call for tender)
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The future (is now) …The future (is now) …
SHORT TERM (FP6): Focus on the needs of the some key user communities
memory preservation institutions (libraries, museums) scientific data resources multimedia archives
How to address their immediate needs in critical areas Systems and tools supporting key digital preservation functions Interoperability DRM
Infrastructure issues Registries, certification, authentication, accreditation Use of generic computing and storage services
Awareness of the broader scope of the problem Intrinsically linked with development of the information society Affecting most organisations and citizens
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Digital preservation: the future …Digital preservation: the future …
SHORT / MEDIUM TERM (FP7):
Research aimed at addressing key technological problems
More cost effective approaches for ingestion and characterisation
Scalability of computing and storage resources (distributed architectures)
Heterogeneity (formats, platforms, objects, data semantics) across space and time
Anticipate the context of future access and reuse of preserved information
Post OAIS – evolution of the reference model
Revamping support infrastructures Drivers for digital preservation and their translation
into sustainable economic models Overcoming non-technological barriers (copyright)
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Digital preservation: the future …Digital preservation: the future …
LONGER TERM (FP7):
Visionary research
Exploring new approaches to individual and collective memory preservation
Build on studies of human cognitive scenarios to better understand what is essential to preserve
How developments in digital preservation can result in realising a surrogate of human memory
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US – EU cooperationUS – EU cooperation
FP7 - IST – International Cooperation
Information sharing Drivers and barriers Evaluation and good practices
Convergence on structuring aspects Interoperability and standardisation Organisational infrastructure and governance models
Joint projects (?) Sharing resources Mutual learning
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9th May 1950 – Europe Day9th May 1950 – Europe Day
Schuman declaration
Pledge for joint collaboration in the pursuit of peace, economic development and a better world!
Can we answer this challenge?
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Questions?Questions?
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More informationMore information
IST – Learning and Cultural Heritage
http://www.cordis.europa.eu/ist/telearn-digicult/
IST and Framework Programme 6http://www.cordis.europa.eu/ist/ - IST
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp6 - FP6
IST and Framework Programme 7http://cordis.europa.eu.int/ist/about/fp7.htm - IST
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/- FP7